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In this Issue: Field Day
Cross your fingers for blue, sunny skies next Thursday, and come help us celebrate what we hope will be the first of many FIELD DAY festivals. It's a chance for artists and arts lovers from all over the state to meet up, play, and mingle: If you're up for some friendly competition, join in at the Greenspace Games; in the afternoon, take in a live performance by Open Eye Figure Theatre. You working stiffs can while away a pleasant lunch hour with Geoff Herbach, Andy Sturdevant, and miniStories winners past and present in the FlatPak House of the Walker's Sculpture Garden. There will be family activities, artmaking workshops, and kid-friendly programs all day long, not to mention great deals on food and drink in the Garden Grill. Solid Gold will cap off the day with a free outdoor concert from the Sky Pesher. You'll also find an arts org mall with loads of information on the resources available to make the most of what our area's cultural centers have to offer. All this, and mnartists.org's artists get free admission to the Walker's galleries all day. So please, come join us – rain or shine, it's sure to be a fantastic time.
- HOMEPAGE: Mason Riddle's review of the 2008-09 MCAD/McKnight Visual Arts Fellows' exhibition, a profile of filmmaker turned playwright David Ash, and a new batch of mnLIT winning poetry and flash fiction
- NEWS YOU CAN USE: A new batch of job postings, grant opportunities, and calls for artists drawn from mnartists.org's daily-updated community bulletin board
- YOU ARE HERE: An array of openings, festivals, gallery exhibitions, dance, film, music, and theater to finish out the summer
PLUS: Mark your calendars – The Precious Object, an exhibition of work by the 2009 ARTmn-winning visual artists, opens September 18 at the Minneapolis Central Library
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Artist Opportunities
»CLICK HERE for a daily-updated list of many, many more opportunities for Minnesota artists in every discipline on mnartists.org |
ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS: A new application round is open for the MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Emerging Artists
Pertinent dates and deadlines: Information sessions on August 17 (at Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis) and August 24 (at the Jerome Foundation office in St. Paul); submission deadline is September 25
CALL FOR ARTISTS: The Rochester Art Center is taking photography submissions for an exhibition, The Sun Also Rises
Deadline: August 28
CALL FOR DANCERS: Audition for Kinetic Evolutions Dance Company
Auditions at Patrick's Cabaret, Minneapolis, August 27
CALL FOR FILMMAKERS AND PERFORMERS: Dance Film Project, co-produced by Cinema Revolution and Intermedia Arts, seeks submissions from dancers and filmmakers for this year's event
Submissions deadline: September 30; organizational meeting @ Intermedia Arts Center, Minneapolis, August 30
CALL FOR ARTISTS: Do It Green Minnesota is looking for local, sustainable artists and business to participate in the 4th annual Green Gifts Fair
CALL FOR ARTISTS: Frattallone's Ace invites local artists to turn mops into Monets and plungers into Picassos as it prepares for the second annual Frattallone's Hardware Art Show
Submission deadline: October 5
CALL FOR ART: Stevens Square Center for the Arts is taking submissions for artwork themed around the stuff of myths and folklore for a juried exhibition
Deadline: September 8
CALL FOR MUSICIANS: Two instrumental musicians needed to rehearse and perform live for the world premiere of Super Monkey by Jon Ferguson Theatre
Credits: (Top) A still from one of Kevin Obsatz and Justin Jones' Four Frame Dance Project pieces from the 2008 Dance Film Project, this one features Anna Marie Shogren
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Love, According to Dave
Britt Aamodt offers an in-depth profile of emerging screenwriter turned playwright, David Ash -- the local writer/director of the underground film festival favorite, Love: A Documentary, and a new play, Connected.
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Credit: Montage of stills from Love: A Documentary, a film by David Ash |
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Space Exploration: MCAD/McKnight Visual Arts Fellows 2008-09
Mason Riddle reflects on the fruits of a year of practice by the 2008-09 McKnight Visual Arts Fellows -- Jennifer Danos, Janet Lobberecht, Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, and Megan Rye – which were recently on view in the MCAD Gallery.
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Credit: Margaret Pezalla-Granlund, Unidentified Asteroid, watercolor, 2008 |
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Some Assembly Required (August 2009)
This month's episodes feature the usual cross section of sample-based music and audio art on Some Assembly Required. Most notably, there's an informal "love" theme, thanks to the artist Fortyone, (Episode 148), some more recent tracks by British sound collagist Vicki Bennett, of People Like Us (Episode 236), and the soundtrack to an excellent video collage (Episode 237), featuring RNC Chairman Michael Steele, thanks to the fine, funny folk at The Colbert Report.
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mnLIT Presents
Each week, mnartists.org publishes a story or poem by one of this year's winners in the What Light Poetry Project and miniStories flash fiction competitions. Read below for a grand prize-winning piece in each category.
Read Jeff Johnson's What Light-winning poem, For Theo at Thirteen Months, Hanging from the Woodwork in his Spring-Tethered Bucket: A Villanelle >>
Read Brian Beatty's victorious miniStories fiction, Velour >> |
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Music | Video | Film |
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Duluth Festival Opera's concert presentation of Puccini's La Boheme, with live illustration of the performance by artist Mike Reed
Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, Duluth, August 20 & 22 (7:30 pm both nights)
Sopranorama – an evening of musical bon-bons by Maria Jette, Janis Hardy, Molly Sue McDonald and Dan Chouinard
Southern Theater, Minneapolis, August 28 – September 6
Music in the Zoo presents Dar Williams with Haley Bonar and Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers
Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, August 21 (7:30 – 10:30 pm)
Suzanne Vega
Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis, August 24 – 26 (7 pm)
Swinging the Valley with the big band stylings of the St. Croix Jazz Orchestra
Stillwater Public Library, Stillwater, August 28 (7 – 9 pm)
Cloud Cult's last local performance of the year, with Halloween, Alaska and The Daredevil Christopher Wright
Cabooze Plaza, Minneapolis, August 23 (music begins @ 5 pm)
Clidesfeld
Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, August 27
Gastro Non Grata – free food by chefs from La Belle Vie, Sea Change and La Chiquita accompanied by live music sets by The Dynamiters, Double Bird, Rope Trick, Tony Magee, and the Twin Cities Ukelele Orchestra
Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis, August 23 (6 pm) |
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Magers and Quinn is turning 15 - a birthday party with food, drink, a storewide sale and live music by M & Q staff, including members of Dreamland Faces, Self-Evident, Cloud Cult, the Wapsipinicon, and Invisible North
Magers and Quinn, Minneapolis, August 28 (6 – 9 pm)
The Sartorialist - a book release party hosted by l'etoile magazine for blogger/photographer Scott Schuman
Magers and Quinn, Minneapolis, August 23 (5 -7 pm)
Lora Jo Foo - Earth Passages: Journeys Through Childhood
The Loft Literary Art Center, Minneapolis, August 29
Artists' talk for exhibition In Our Own Backyard: U.S. Poverty in the 21st Century – with photographers Steve Liss, Jon Lowenstein and Danny Wilcox-Frazier
Mpls Photo Center, Minneapolis, August 25 (7 pm)
Common Room presents – "Music Night with Andy DuCett," a conversation about the intersections between the artists' LP collection and his artwork
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, August 22 (7 – 10 pm) |
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mnartists.org's FIELD DAY at the Walker – Greenspace Games and family activities, art-making workshops, a live performance by Open Eye Figure Theatre, readings by miniStories winners past and present, food & drink, and much more – capped off by a free outdoor concert in the Sky Pesher by Solid Gold
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, August 27 (11 am – 7 pm)
CHAT's 8th Annual Hmong Arts and Music Festival, "No Word for Art"
Western Sculpture Park, St. Paul, August 22 (11 – 7 pm)
B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, September 17 - 20
The Red Stag Block Party - live music by Roma di Luna, Mark Mallman, Black Blondie, E.L.nO., Romantica, Heiruspecs, Chooglin with MCs Mary Lucia and Foxy Tann
Red Stag Supper Club, Minneapolis, (free, rain or shine) August 22 (4 – 10:30 pm)
Fifth Annual Iron Pour
White Bear Center for the Arts, White Bear Lake, August 22
Go Live III – an evening of art by John Alspach and Page Whitmore, fashion by Atom Pechman, and music by Booka B
FIVETWOSIX Salon & Gallery, St. Paul, August 21 (7 – 11 pm)
ARTigras
Rochester Art Center, Rochester, August 22
2009 Minnesota State Fair
State Fair Grounds, St. Paul, August 27 - September 6
Credits: (Top) Solid Gold (Photo: John Carlucci); (bottom) photo for Field Day by Cameron Wittig for the Walker Art Center |
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The Recovery Department presents a sketch-comedy revue, The Department of Redundancy Department
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, September 11 – 26 (Friday & Saturday evenings @ 7 pm)
Sample Night Live
History Theatre, St. Paul, September 2
Mary Poppins
Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, September 3 - 20
Ella, adapted from a book by Jeffrey Thatcher for the stage by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, extended run through September 20
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The Beautifully Grotesque – The Artwork of Sylvia Ortiz
Rogue Buddha Gallery, Minneapolis, on view through September 12
Roxanne Jackson: We Believe in Something
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MAEP Galleries), Minneapolis, opens August 27 (7 pm) and on view through November 1
Salon 300: Minnesota State Fair overflow show
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, opens August 22 (6 – 8 pm), and runs through September 6
Comicopolis – a comic art show with books, prints, mini-comics, and original art by Kevin Cannon, Ken Avidor, Steven Stwalley, Will Dinski, Brittany Sabo, Andy Singer and others
FrameUps and the Capstone Gallery, Minneapolis, opens August 28 (6 – 9 pm) and will be on view through September 30
Spotogee, "the apex, culmination, climax of color" – a group show by local artists
spotArt.org Gallery, Minneapolis, opens August 28 (7 – 11 pm), runs through September 25
Mama Said Knock U Out! - a gallery exhibition of work by 28 female artists from around the world who use their work to "empower, inform, and organize"
Intermedia Arts Center, Minneapolis, opens August 28 (6 – 9 pm) and runs through October 23
"How to Build an Igloo" by performance artist Andrea Miller, exploring the links between environmental damage and human quality of life
Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, August 28 (performance from 2 – 5 pm; a related exhibition opens September 28)
State of the City 2009
Rochester Art Center, Rochester, August 7 - September 20
10: Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Northern Printmakers Alliance
Northern Prints Gallery, Duluth, August 8 - Oct 10
Credit: Sylvia Ortiz, Kissy Fishy Face #1, acrylic, ink on canvas (courtesy of Rogue Buddha Gallery) |
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You Are Here event listings are drawn almost entirely from the mnartists.org calendar, so if you want to improve the odds that you'll see your happening linked here, you'd better start posting your events!
We've made it super easy to begin: here's a step-by-step guide that'll show you how to promote your own events on the site's DIY arts calendar. |
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One for the Road |
mnartists.org, in partnership with the Hennepin County Library, presents The Precious Object, an exhibiton by the 2009 winners of the ARTmn visual arts competition
OPENING RECEPTION
ARTmn2009: The Precious Object
Friday, September 18, 6 - 9 pm, Free
Cargill Hall, Minneapolis Central Library
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The mission of mnartists.org is to improve the lives of Minnesota artists and provide access to and engagement with Minnesota’s arts culture. |
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